Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1887-09-02
IN TOWN AND OUT.

Spext week.
District Court convenes at Bismarck
next Tuesday
Now you may shoot game birds with.
out fear of the law.
Go to H. H. Days, Bismarck, for Jew
elrY, watches, repairing, etc.
Mr.. Elliott Campbell was quite severely
kicked by horse last Tuesday
The Board of County Commissioners
WILL meet in regular session next Monday.
Mrs. D. r. Rupert has been seriously
i'll during the past week, but is much bet
ter now.
The RECORD now rises to announce
that there will be a we'd. Somebody
said, "Sit down /"
There will be Sabbath. school concert
a week from next Sunday, at the Will
Transport schoolhouse
r. L. Durant g. Co., wholesale and re-
tail booksellers and stationers, wall paper
and music dealers. Bismarck, Oak.
Young Jacob Kalberer's oats thrashc d
AZ bushels to the acre. The wheat so far
,thrashcd goes from Is to 18 bushels to
the acre.
"Wednesday Attorney Armstrong hitched
iup the lively: stepping Dlendin, turned tie
Esteed's tail toward Yankton, and departcd
ncapitalward.
III. II. Pitcher Is in Findlay, OHIO. He
writes Mr.. Armstrong to send him his
N(H. H.'s) gripsack, and says ho will be
Nback in about forty years.
MIR. s.sJ. Ripley, OF Winchester, was in
town Tuesday. He reports Il very pleas
ant dancing party at the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. Bumstead Monday night
\ Commissioners Yeater is in Bismarck
At is said that lie intends to get out a
Esearch- good for Emmons and
Burleigh counties and hunt up his pig.
Miss Katie Linderman, of Philadelphia,
Iiwho has been visiting relatives in the
IWilhamsport country, has returned home
FThe young lady was very much pleased
with Dakota, and expressed herself as
having had a pleasant visit.
AS most of our farmers are not quite
ready to thrash, Will Gregory has taken
his thrashing machine back iuto Burleigl,
county to do some work he has there
The machine will be back IN the Williams
port country within week or ten days.
We wish our citizens when they return
from Bismarck would always let the
RECORD know how the Emmons County
Z people sick in Lamborn Hospital are get
ting along In this way we will be en-
abled to give correct report each week.
It has been noticed says the Dakota
4 Bell. that girl who has been graduated
by Vassar and had $685. spent on her
education will, after marriage, hold
clothes pins in her mouth and gossip
over the back fence. while hanging ou,
the washing, just like other women. You
\ can't change woman's nature.
Everybody living on the Missouri
. Slope knows DR.. Dunn, the old. timer.
In purchasing drugs the public has to de.
pend largely on the dealers statements
as to quality and prices. Nobody evel
had reason to complain of his dealings
with the firm of Dunn g. Co. Therefore,
when in Bismarck, be sure to call on them.
Miss Bessie McNiel departed Tuesday
for Bismarck where she made final proof
\ yesterday. Mrs. D. r. Strceter and Mr.
! Jasper Denham went with her as wit.
nesses. Miss McNisl will Immediately
| resume her duties as teacher of Fargo
public school. Wherever she may be, the
best wishes of her many friends here &C
kWith her.
y The weather has been behaving very
Fbadly during the week. Clouds have
4 been in sight nearly all the time, ant
hardly day has passed without drizzle
Tuesday there was heavy shower in the
/ Williamsport country. Some of the grair
IS still in shock; but the weather ha.
u been cool, and we have heard of nc
Esprouting.
+ Dr.. Roop is having his tree-clain
plowed. He intends to plant box-eldel
7 as soon as the seed is ripe. He intends tc
put in walnuts with the box-slder on
part of the claim, having brought ou
] two bushels of nuts. The doctor believes
--and he is probably rlght--that the wal
nuts will receive the necessary freezing il
the ground.
John Daniel came down from Dawson
Sunday on visit to his farm. John hac
i a field of wheat that was put in by Mr.
Plant on shares. A hail.storm in July
< totally destroyed the crep--that is, il
cut the growing grain of short. But tn,
n wheat:started up afresh. It is now jus
about ripe, and is as good gram as any
!! John returned to Dawson Sunday night
: During recent visit at the residence
8 of Mr.. aud Mrs. Shields we obtained oul
s first view of "snake cucumber" Thi.
t is the queerest specimen of vegetable tha
F.. grows in this latitude. One of the Gu
cumbers was three feet long. 1t wa.
coiled, and really much resenbled q ser
pent. A carrot one foot in Circumference,
was another product of the Shields gar
den.
t The RECORD was mistaken last week il
!, stating that frost in this vicinity hae
: done some damage. 1t turned out tina
the slight nip only killed the top leave,